Society news & features p3

The government wants to encourage GPs to prescribe some social services, such as respite care and anger management therapy. What do doctors, social care professionals and service users make of the proposal? Interviews by Saba Salman.

Society news & features p4

David Brindle: Once upon a time, in an altogether more innocent age, a reporter's job was to turn up at a politician's speech and, well, report it. These days, the journalist waits by the phone to be favoured with a call from the politician's press people.

Society news & features p5

Interview: Coming new to campaigning after 20 years as a career civil servant does not stop the new chief executive of the charity Rethink spelling out exactly where the government is going wrong on mental health, finds Mary O'Hara.

Society news & features p9

Politicians and the public look to scientists to explain the causes of climate change and whether it can be tackled - and they are queuing up to deliver. But, asks Mike Hulme, are we being given the whole picture?

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